Ultimate Jingle Cookie Bars & Marshmallow Snowmen #HolidayCandy #CBias

Preheat your oven to 325º F. Grease or line your baking pan with parchment paper. Mix the melted butter and cookie crumbs into your baking dish until thoroughly combined.

Press mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes. Remove pan to a cooling rack.

Once cooled at the crushed pretzel pieces.

In a food processor or stand mixer (I used food processor for easy clean-up due to using it to crush cookies) cream together the cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Mix in the egg and vanilla on slow speed until combined. Add in the peanut butter and mix until combined. Pour the cheesecake batter over the crust.

Next, unwrap your Jingles. My daughter loves to help in the kitchen so this was her job as my baking assistant. Get your kids in on the baking action! Once they are all unwrapped roughly chop the Jingles.

In your mixer or food processor beat the butter, sugars and vanilla until smooth. Mix in the flour until just incorporated. Next, add the Jingles mix until incorporated.

Take the dough and add little clumps of dough onto the cheesecake filling until it’s all distributed. Flatten the clumps out slightly.

Marshmallow Snowmen 

Recipe:

12 squares Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
12 Nestle Butterfinger or Crunch Jingles, unwrapped
12 pretzel checkerboard snaps
2/3 cup prepared frosting
24 large marshmallows, divided
12 pretzel stick for arms, broken in half
Nestle Toll House mini chocolate chips (a heaping teaspoon)
12 small orange candies (I used orange sprinkles)
Thin-string licorice for scarves (I used sour licorice and cut them into strands)

Instructions:

• Prepare the cookies as directed on the package. Cool on baking sheet, remove to wire rack to cool completely. 
• To make hats, adhere Jingles to pretzel snaps with frosting, set aside. 
• To make snowmen, insert 2 pretzel sticks into each side of the 12 marshmallows to create arms on base of snowman. Spread frosting onto the center of each cookie; top with snowman base. Press down lightly. Spread additional frosting on top of each snowman base. Top with remaining 12 marshmallows. Pipe a small amount of frosting on marshmallow for chocolate chips and sprinkle. Add the eyes, nose and buttons. For the scarf, add the licorice strand and tie.